It’s In Queens! (Nov. 9 to Nov. 15)

How about some music? Gladys Knight, the moment’s hottest Indian crooner, a Broadway sensation, and harmony masters are in Queens this week. There’s also time for GingerBread Lane, classic films, and the Chimney Swift.

Nov. 10, Kaoru Ikeda/MoustacheCat Dance + Xiang Xu Dance Theater, 8 pm (repeat on Nov. 11). The first piece, Freedom isn’t Free, addresses the prejudice that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It also explores current bias. The second piece, Oneness, argues that joy and sorrow originate within. Green Space, 37-24 24th St., LIC, http://bit.ly/2kuPDrC.

Nov. 11, GingerBread Lane, Jan. 15, 2018. This exhibition varies each year, but it is usually a large village with gingerbread houses, trees, cable cars, train cars, and a candy subway station. Ingredients have included roughly 1,900 pounds of icing, 400 pounds of candy, and 500 pounds of dough. The municipality won the Guinness World Record for largest gingerbread village for 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th St., Flushing Meadows Corona Park, http://bit.ly/2lXKoS3.

Nov. 11, Ben Parag in Concert, 5:30 pm. Born in Richmond Hill to Guyanese immigrant parents, this romantic singer became famous via his performances on the hit Indian talent show Dil Hai Hindustani (similar to American Idol). $20-$40. York College Performing Arts Center, 94-20 Guy Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, http://bit.ly/2iEVJoS.

Nov. 12, Kristallnacht Remembrance, 2 pm. A candle-lighting ceremony with Holocaust survivors and their family members. Then New School professor Noah Isenberg presents “Casablanca, the Refugee Question, and the Fateful Summer of 1938” with clips from the classic film. Free. Goldstein Theatre, Queens College, Flushing, http://bit.ly/2h8Drbo.

Nov. 12, Jason Danieley, 3 pm. A free Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert. Danieley was once described as “the most exquisite tenor on Broadway” by The New York Times. He made his Broadway debut in the 1997 revival of Bernstein’s Candide, winning a Theatre World award. LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thomson Ave., LIC, http://bit.ly/2zmYKyq.

Nov. 12, Kabarett Weimar, 8 pm. Prepare to be transported to the infamous Kit Kat Klub where a cast of naughty, nubile, and nearly-nude performers sing and dance their way through a night of decadence in Weimar Era Germany. LettLove Inn, 27-20 23rd Ave., Astoria, http://bit.ly/2zAZ5jO

Nov. 13, I Was Told to Come Alone, 1:30 pm. Souad Mekhennet, a German Muslim and an award-winning reporter for the Washington Post, discusses her new book on the radicalization of young Muslims, starting in the German neighborhoods from which the 9/11 plotters emerged, to the Iraqi neighborhoods where Sunnis and Shia turned against one another. It culminates on the Turkish-Syrian border region, where ISIS has a daily presence. $8 requested donation. Central Queens Y, 67-09 108th St., Forest Hills, http://bit.ly/2lUqFm9.

Nov. 15, Queens County Bird Club, 8 pm. John Connors, who manages the Audubon Society’s Chimney Swift Research Project and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, discusses the Chimney Swift, a little bird that spends almost its entire life airborne. When it lands, it can’t perch—it clings to vertical walls inside chimneys or in hollow trees or caves. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, http://bit.ly/2jlsSkx.